Remember that there was a fine payable if a birth was not registered within
6 weeks? By registering on 3 December, the parents were just outside that
time frame for a date of 15 October, even if Thomas later adjusted his year
of birth from 1843 to 1842. It was quite common for parents to 'adjust' the
date to avoid the fine! Either year would have been OK for an Engineering
Certificate of Competency provided he had the requisite qualifications.
Nina
On 30 July 2013 00:09, James R. Davis <james.davis1(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Hi Helen,
This does not appear to be related to the switch from the Julian Calendar
to
the Gregorian calendar which occurred about 1582 and was implemented about
1752 in Great Britain. This just changed the starting date of the calendar
year. The delay in implementing it caused a loss (I think of several days)
due to the method of calculating years and leap years.
Your dates are much later and are 13 months (from 25 Nov 1843 to 15 Oct
1942) which in my opinion is not trivial. So I don't think this "time
difference is so small". Maybe Mr. Stockwood wanted to look older at some
point in his life for some reason and once he fibbed once he stuck with it.
I think the idea that there might have been a minimum age to be licensed as
an Engineer is a good one. There must be a way to find out more about
this.
Peace,
Jim
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On Behalf Of Helen D'All
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 3:33 PM
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Subject: [GLA] a discrepancy - opinions on what may be done?
Hello all - I have a birth certificate for Thomas Stockwood, born 25
November 1843 to William Stockwood & Louisa Fullinlove. The birth was
registered according to the certificate on 3 December 1843 - there is a
corresponding entry in FreeBMD.
I have just noticed that the same Thomas, in filling out his"Application to
be examined for an Engineer's Certificate of Competency" in 1865, records
his birth date as 15 October 1842 & have been unable to find a
corresponding
BMD entry. That they are one and the same person, ie the son of William,
is
validated by many, many documents covering his life as a ship's engineer,
his subsequent death & the placement of one of his children in the Muller
Home.
At first I imagined there may have been some sort of reason, such as an age
limit for a certificate that might have caused him to fudge the date, but
the time difference is so small.
Does anyone have an opinion on perhaps the why - whether I should try to
solve this (and how?) thank you ... Helen
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